The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
THE RAG BAG.
Will Opens His Heart About Wo'
men Who Wear Red Eells
and Other Things.

Dolly" said Will as he sat down a I
few evenings ago for his usual chat:
There are four or five young married
women and about a half dozen un-
women in this city who make
wonderfully cheap by
their conduct on the street. "Yes,
/ said as l looked up inquiringly,
"but tell me in what way?" "Oh l
dunno as you will exactly understand
Dolly, what mean by the term" said
Will, but by cheap mean common,
unladylike or anything else of the
kind which may occur TO your mind.
eyes" / said again, "now just ex-
plain what you mean, you know am
always delig hted to hear these criti-
cisms of my sex, especially when a
gentleman makes Them" | said with
a slight touch of irony in my voice.
Will moved little uHeasily In his
chair and then he said, "but Dolly, |
even you must admit that it looks
badly to see women logged out in all
the inery which they can beg, borrow
or steal. Haunting the streets and
leering at every man they see--nay
| | don't mean men, but thingamys in
the shape of men, mere tai,
lor signs, all clothes and
mustaches and Glove drops and
- here Will paused for breath,
and said calmly "don't get excited.
nv dear; these people are really not
worth it, and yet, l do admit that If
the dozen or fifteen women you men,
ton behave badly on the street, they
should be ashamed; but tell me.
haven't you imagined little bit OF
the 'leering' business" Why, GER
tainly not, my dear Dolly. L was
standing talking to a gentleman IN
front of Sicher's to-day, and two we'll
known married women, under the
pressure of full rigging in the shape
of little red wells and big bus les, and
all the rest of it, passed, and my friend
> as well as myself, saw that. they were
> carving OH a certain biography which
decent men call harlotry, and fool:
, term Irritation, with couple OF dudlst
, looking fellow across the street. Al
> I ascertained afterward, the fellow
: were members of theatrical compan.
d playing an engagement here, and wer
e rakes of the most pronounced Kind
: | turned to the friend with whom ha'
= been talking, and said. do you Sc
that {? and he answered, yes, and
am glad that neither of those wome
- hear nv name would not live wit
. woman of that kind to
.. the wealth of a Gould. Thes
is women, who never have any childre
and want the attentions of every jack
a auapes that chooses to offer them,
r not my Style and Struggling h
shoulders my friend changed tn
he subject" livery good" L SAID
oil "Willie, but do the married gentl
men always conduct themselves pro-
a d erly on the street, "No, Doll!
they do not, l am sorry to say, b'
il no mani mean by that a mai
d. mind you, a full, thoroughbred ma
among mems going to enter into
tie Irritation, at least in a marke
TO manner, on the street, and you ma
y depend upon it; but | have seen SON
of the most prominent women almo
fIirt with that miserable travesty G
lhe art. OBrien's Puck, because, W
" see, he looks a little inviting"
laughed, and then / said, "My de
Willie, you are exaggerating,
course, but | understand all "
oh would say on this subject, aud L
he lieve, Just as you do, that certa
ial married women as well as young
ed dies. make themselves cheap by th'
ia. conduct on the street; but one thu
te" YOU must remember, dear, is, I'll
ING there are probably eight or ten tho
her sand women In this city, and VIII
the the women you refer to are unden
s." bly prominent in the sense Il
ldy they have kept themselves before
sas public in certain ways, yet they.
,ity not really prominent In mind, INT
INV llect or true womanliness. and tn
is, stand in exactly the same relation
hat the sensible members OF
are sex as do the thingamys you spoke
Is q do to the man among men.
E is certainly grieve when l see won
af who would hesitate long before sPe
ride ing to an honorable working girl,
tied though perhaps acquainted with
and and yet receive, nay, even solicit
der chances and attentions of men WI
we moral character may be foul with
our leprosy of dissipation ,,.r :,
dn't Certainly" answered Will, :.
by Grimm you needn't grieve ID
when you see the women hes'tatln